Dishbasket



. WWTNESSES L VAYUDREUIL.

DISHBASKET. APPLICATION FILED luv/27.1921.

1A83ji59 Patented @w. 311, 1922,

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STATES JOHN VAUDREUIL, F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

DISHBASKET.

Application filed July 27,

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, JOHN VAUDREUIL, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and 5 State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dishbasket's, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

The invention relates to dish baskets.

The object of the invention is to provide a dish basket into which the dishes, such as cups, saucers, glasses and plates, may be stacked either for washing or rinsing or drying, without danger of injury to the dishes, the basket including a metal frame provided with wooden bufiers.

,A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective connection beably secured to the frames 4. At the corners reinforcement wires 6 are welded to the rods 5, and other wires 7 are welded to intermediate rods 5 to brace them. This construction provides a strong wire basket, but as there is danger of cracking or breaking dishes in an all-wire basket, wooden buffer rods 8 are connected to the sides by running the rods 5 through spaced holes in these rods 8. The transverse wooden rods 9 form the bottom of the basket and they are also anchored to the frame by having rods 5 pass .through their ends. The top buffer rods 8 are held against accidental displacement by means of retainer wires 10 welded to the tops of some of the rods 5 which extend through the top wooden rods.

Racks or compartments in the basket are formed by wooden rack bars 11, which may be arranged in pairs or singly to accommodate the dishes. These rack bars extend across the basket and the ends of each bar tween the sides of the basket and the wooden 1921. Serial No. 487,907.

are secured to the skeleton frame by means of connectors 12.

Each connector has a closed end 13 and a tubular portion 14 having diametrically disposed slots 15. The slots 15 permit the connectors being slipped over the upright rods 5 to receive the ends of the bars 11 in their tubular portions 14 and thus connect said bars to the wire frame. When the tubular portion 14 has a snug fit with the end of the bar 11, as this bar swells up when wet, the parts will be firmly secured together, but in addition a small screw or nail 16 passed through a hole 17 in the connector and into the end of the bar may be used. In case a rack bar breaks it can be very easily replaced with this form of connection.

As shown in Fig. 1 the connectors are preferably secured to the rods 5 between longitudinally extending parts of the basket, as between one of the wires 7 and one of the buifer rods 8, or between one of the wires 7 and the corner wire 6 to hold the rack bars in position.

From the foregoing description it will be noted that the basket is of light but strong construction, may be easily cleaned, prevents injury to the dishes, and those parts most subject tobreakage may be readily replaced.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a dish basket, the combination of a wire skeleton frame including upright wire rods, wooden buffer rods secured to said upright rods, spaced wooden bottom bars secured to said frame, and a plurality of rack bars secured to said upright rods.

2. In a dish basket, the combination of a wire skeleton-frame including upright wire rods, a plurality of rack bars, connectors sccuring the ends of said rack bars to said rods, each connector having a portion fitting over the end of the bar and slotted to receh the rod between the ends of the slots aim the end of the bar.

3. In a dish basket, the combination of a wire skeleton frame including upright wire rods, a plurality of wooden rack bars, metal caps fitting over the ends of Said bars and having slots to receive the wire rods between the ends of the slots and the end of the bar.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature;

JOHN VAUDR-El lL. 

